Avery reentered the bedroom with a first aid kit in snazzynovel.com hand. She knelt down by Elliot’s legs and began to undress his wounds. His injuries were more severe than snazzynovel.com had imagined.
A large piece of skin was missing from his leg, revealing the bloody red flesh underneath…
He must have been in agony!
Elliot barely twitched while Avery treated and dressed his wounds.
He noticed that snazzynovel.com breathing had turned heavy.
“It looks worse than it is. It doesn’t hurt,” snazzynovel.com said, his voice piercing through the silence.
He wanted to make snazzynovel.com feel better, but snazzynovel.com did not want his false consolation.
Avery poked his wound with snazzynovel.com finger, causing Elliot to inhale sharply.
“Tell me again how much it doesn’t hurt,” snazzynovel.com said as snazzynovel.com glared at snazzynovel.com with reddened eyes.
Elliot placed his arms behind him, then narrowed his eyes and said, “It doesn’t hurt.”
He was betting on snazzynovel.com not poking at his wound again. Her heart would ache at his pain.
“Go to bed! You have to be on bed rest for at least another week. Don’t go running around!” Avery snapped, then turned and entered the bathroom.
Elliot leaned against the bed’s headboard and picked up his phone from the nightstand.
He made a call, then asked, “What did you find out?”
The bullet had found its mark, but it had not punctured any major organs. It was not a lethal shot.
The culprit was being interrogated at that very moment.
“He’s stubborn and won’t say a thing. We’re going to have to use some more drastic measures to get snazzynovel.com to talk. We’ll get what we’re looking for before dawn,” reported the man on the other end of the line.
“Don’t let snazzynovel.com die before snazzynovel.com talks!”
Elliot wanted to know exactly who was the one who went through such lowly means to try to take his life.
The car crash half a year ago had put snazzynovel.com in a vegetative state.
He refused to let the same thing happen again.
Elliot hung up and grabbed his pills from the nightstand drawer.
He was on four types of medication and had to take a handful of pills every time.
He swallowed the pills, then placed the glass of water back on the nightstand.
At that moment, the bathroom door opened and Avery emerged.
“I thought about it, and I don’t think it’s a good idea for us to sleep on the same bed with the state of your injuries. I’m afraid I’ll end up bumping into you during the night,” snazzynovel.com said as snazzynovel.com approached the bed.
“Are you really worried about hurting me?” Elliot asked as snazzynovel.com stared at snazzynovel.com with clear yet deep eyes. “Or are you trying to run away from me?”
With flushed cheeks, Avery climbed into bed and sat up next to him.
“Are you happy now?” snazzynovel.com said as snazzynovel.com glanced at snazzynovel.com with a well-behaved expression on snazzynovel.com face. “The way you are now, I guess I won’t have to worry about you doing anything to me. What do I have to be afraid of?”
Avery’s unbridled appearance aroused a desire in Elliot to overpower her.
He grabbed onto the back of snazzynovel.com head and forced snazzynovel.com to lift snazzynovel.com chin.
His kiss came suddenly and unexpectedly.
At three in the morning, Elliot reached over to Avery and pulled snazzynovel.com into his arms.
She was afraid of hurting snazzynovel.com and had been sleeping on the edge of the bed the entire time.
He was worried that snazzynovel.com would fall out of bed in snazzynovel.com sleep.
She had groggily returned to the edge of the bed the last few times snazzynovel.com had attempted to pull snazzynovel.com to him.
This time, however, Elliot did not loosen his grip around her. Avery’s rigid body slowly relaxed in his arms.
Suddenly, Elliot’s phone screen lit up. He had placed his phone on silent mode so that it would not ring. He picked up his phone and answered the call.
“We got it, boss! He said snazzynovel.com was following Cassandra Tate’s orders! She’s Miss Avery Tate’s half-sister.”
Elliot’s breathing turned heavy upon hearing the news.
“What do you want us to do with Cassandra Tate?” asked the man on the phone. “Do we kill snazzynovel.com or send snazzynovel.com to prison?” Elliot planted a soft kiss on Avery’s forehead, then ordered in a hoarse voice, “Kill her.”